Mirror: Make radio jammer block suit sensors

[SimpleStation14]

Mirror of PR #26046: Make radio jammer block suit sensors from space-wizards/space-station-14

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PR opened by nikthechampiongr at 2024-03-12 17:11:18 UTC

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PR changed 5 files with 36 additions and 5 deletions.

The PR had the following labels:

• Status: Needs Review

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Original Body

About the PR

Radio jammers will now additionally block suit sensors.

When someone with suit sensors is in range of an active radio jammer, their suit sensor output will be jammed. This will lead to them appearing as frozen on any crew monitors for roughly 10 seconds before they completely disappear from it.

Why / Balance

This gives syndies more stealth options when doing their objectives, and provides an interesting use for the radio jammer.

Now on the implementation details:

With this current implementation you drop off suit sensors after roughly 10 seconds of being jammed. This means you get a 10 second period before anyone actively watching crew monitors can even suspect something's wrong. The reason I have it like this is:
a) It's the simplest way to implement this feature.
b) It's more realistic while still providing a pretty significant advantage.

Alternatively this could be changed to make the suit sensors submit outdated info indefinitely until the jammer has stopped.

Technical details

Added a new event which the suit sensors system calls before actually constructing the message it will send to the crew monitoring server. If it is cancelled then the message is not sent. I also intentionally made it so this is checked after a new update time has been set, but if it's a problem it can just be moved above it.

Media

• I have added screenshots/videos to this PR showcasing its changes ingame, or this PR does not require an ingame showcase

2024-03-12.19-07-00.mp4

Changelog

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• tweak: The radio jammer is now able to jam the signal of suit sensors.

[VMSolidus]

Neat!